This is a look at Boquete from the higher altitude of Alto Boquete and the Caldera River.
Charlotte on our first day walk into Boquete. It’s about a three mile walk.
The Red Dot is approximately where our AirBnB is. We’re at the end of a gravel road about 2 and a half blocks from the main road to Boquete. About three miles to Boquete.
This is the view of Volcan Baru from near our AirBnB. This is the only active volcano in Panama but it has been dormant for 550 years. It is the highest point in Panama and the only place where you can see both the Pacific and the Caribbean from one point.
Since there are no street signs and building addresses in Alto Boquete, our directions of how to find our AirBnB was to turn right at the orange rock. It worked.
This is our kitchen/living room area at our AirBnB in Alto Boquete. Lots of storage space, all the appliances we need. A large refrigerator. The door at the right opens to a large second story deck with a hammock.
This is what the typical runoff area along the main road looked like before we did our cleanup operation.
This is how a runoff area looks after we remove the trash.
Beautiful ‘flowerfall’ as you enter Boquete.
This deadly coral snake was at our house on our second day back from walking to Boquete. There is another snake that looks similar that is not so deadly. The ditty that helps you remember which is which, goes like this: “Red against Black, just stand back. Red against Yellow could kill a fella.”
There are at least sixty white nosed coati that come up to the Boquete visitor center every day looking to get fed. They belong to the racoon family and will rip apart your garbage if you don’t have it protected overnight.
These are the amazingly good bagels that are produced each day at the local Morton’s Bakehouse. Really, really good. Their sourdough bread is also excellent.
This is the size of the local avocados. They have a thicker skin that most varieties so it doesn’t work so well to squeeze them to tell if they are ripe. They say the way to tell is to push down on the small stem opening at the top to see if it is ripe.
You can’t tell how big this guy is from the picture, but it is one of the largest grasshoppers I’ve seen. It’s on the bridge over the Caldera River in Boquete.
This is Mike. I think he is the owner or brewmaster at Boquete Brewing Company – a premier micro brewery. He explained in detail all six of their current offerings. When there is not a pandemic they have more than a dozen offerings. We tried these three on the table. The tall one on the left is Medianoche Express. It’s a stout and really good.
The bathroom sign at Boquete Brewing Company. Love the open and accepting attitude.
After we had a nice dinner at The Rock along the Caldera River they had a nice bonfire and we roasted marshmallows for maybe the first time in 50 years.
We happened upon the Tuesday Forum. It is an educational event organized every Tuesday during the Tuesday Farmers Market. This week the topic was all the details of the COVID-19 regulations presented by a celebrity that does a local radio show.
We picked up over 250 aluminum cans in just a short stretch of a nearby road and turned them into the local recycler.
At the local Unido Coffee House, they actually dry their coffee beans right on their patio.
At Boulder 54 – a local restaurant and hotel, they have an avocado tree in the yard. Big hard shelled avocados.
Several real interesting flowers in the garden at Boulder 54.
Some serious coffee from our local Organica store.
Finally got around to trying the hammock. I’ll need to adjust the height. Although this is quite safe for falling out of the hammock.
Tim and Tu lived downstairs from us and are from VietNam but having a hard time getting home during the pandemic. They love walking also and we take some adventures with them.
Tu made dinner for us on November 14th. This is the soup with tofu.
Also from our Nov. 14 dinner with Tim and Tu. We bought and peeled the shrimp from a vendor that came right to our door.
Also from our Nov 14 dinner with Tim and Tu. Fish (Dogfish) from the local fish vendor.